Socio-political order and security in the Arab world : from regime security to public security

Abstract

Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Redefining the Concept of Security; Why This Book?; The Book's Outline; Notes; Chapter 2: A New Approach to Conceptualizing Security in the Arab World; The Social Contract: Providing Security as a Public Good; Defining the Public Sphere; Conceptualizing Patron-Protégé Relations in Islamic Political Thought; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Patron-Protégé Relations Under the Old Regime; Patron-Protégé Relations in the Arab World; Egypt; Syria; Libya; Tunisia; Bahrain; Yemen; Conclusion; Notes. Contents: Chapter 4: Traditional Civil-Security Sector Relations in the Arab WorldConceptualizing the Relationship Between Public, Patron and Security Sector; Means of Privatizing the Statutory Security Sector; Structural Means of Privatization of the Security Sector; Diversification of the Security Sector; Centralization of Command Structures; Constant Rotation of Stakeholders; Coercive Means of Privatizing the Security Sector; Commissarism; Accommodative Means of Privatizing the Security Sector; Favouritism; Types of Security Sectors; Personalized Security Sectors; Sectarian Security Sectors. Contents: Momentum and EscalationMeans of Last Resort; Regime Change, Resilience and Counterrevolution; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Alternative Patronage Systems: From Old Regime Failure to New Security Providers; Renegotiating the Social Contract After the Failure of State Patronage; Islamism as the Foundation for a New Social Contract; The Muslim Brotherhood; The Brotherhood and the Arab Spring; Hezbollah; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: Battling for a New Post-Revolutionary Order: New Security Providers in Syria, Libya and Yemen; Syria: From Public Dissidence to Socio-Political Disintegration. Contents: Profiteering Security SectorsPraetorian Security Sectors; Fractured Security Sectors; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: The Arab Public Sphere: Challenging the Old Regime; Civil Society and the Regime; New Media and the Rise of the Arab Public Sphere; The Arab Public Sphere and the Arab Spring; The Mobilization of the Masses; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Public Dissidence, the Security Sector and Regime Resilience; Dissidence, Repression and Its Impact on Regime Resilience; The Escalatory Spiral of Dissidence, Response and Regime Resilience Since 2011; The Initial Spark; Protest and Repression. Contents: Socio-Political Reintegration Amid Widespread AnarchyLibya: From Regime Change to Socio-Political Disintegration; Yemen: The Intensification of Socio-Political Fragmentation; AQAP Ansar-al-Sharia; The Houthis; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: Iraq: The Privatization of Security and the Rise of ISIS; The Socio-Political Context of Iraq; Building a New Regime: Private Patronage in Reverse; Maliki's Private Security Sector; From Public Dissidence to Socio-Political Disintegration; The Rise of ISIS; ISIS as a Public Security Provider; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 10: Conclusion; Notes.